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What to say about Competitive Intelligence to Program Managers?
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Started this discussion. Last reply by Ellen Naylor Sep. 21, 2009.
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Eric,
I agree that courage is a key attribute and maybe is the most important. However, I am more intrigued by what comes after the courageous act. That is, suppose a CI person tells the hard truth to his or her senior management audience, then wha…
Many product managers are also compensated based on how well the product sells, so you might consider that angle of motivation: they'll sell more if they know how to position it against the competition. When I did CI in corporations, I recall asking…
You might also talk about risk assessment and mitigation, something project and program managers should always do and often don't. I like using Eric's "Future's Wheel" diagram for this to discuss possible cause-and-effect scenarios.
Some possible ideas...
Project managers are driven to ensure that projects are completed on time, under budget, and result in high quality results. To that end, you have the possibility of outlining the incorporation of CI research and analysis met…
Next month, I will make a presentation to the local PMI group. I have about 45 minutes to dazzle them (hopefully) with information that either they didn't know or didn't know how to relate to their everyday tasks.
Although I do not have a PMP certi…
Lets compare it to a game of Soccer.
We are the "Mid-Fielder" ( Midfilders).
We feed the Centre Fowards ie the Decision Makers.
They get the Glory! So What?
All,
I wonder about something. If you were asked, how much could you say about the most meaningful CI activity that you have done for a company or a client? Would you be able to acknowledge publicly what you did in detail? Could you give an abstrac…
Passing on information collected from tenders to other internal departments is a bit of a touchy subject, as there typically is a representation in a confidentiality agreement (that binds the procurement organization) that the information contained…
Analyzing a supplier's cost structure to assess the viability of the supplier's tender prices contains some challenges as to collecting the information in a legitimate way. Cost analysis would require e.g. investigations into the prices of the suppl…
Tom, thanks for the post which I believe poses a very important question that our profession must be able to answer if we are to remain a relevant business practice.
In some of our discussions about the SCIP 2010 programming, one of the pieces of f…
Tom,
Maybe you may like to read in detail on Value Chain Analysis.
Ari,
Thanks for the references.
-- Tom
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- Tom Hawes is the Principal and Owner of JTHawes Consulting, LLC. Before starting his own consultancy, Tom spent 28 years in high technology businesses focused on defining, communicating and implementing business strategy and competitive intelligence. His passion is to “help smart people to think clearly” about their strategy challenges. Tom’s broad experience and analytical thinking are tuned to helping people to make large contributions. Nothing is more satisfying than seeing someone make a breakthrough in resolving a strategy problem. Tom’s gift is that he can listen to, advise and train people to be successful in methods that they come to own. Hence, the individuals are enriched and their company profits.
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- I consult in Business and Competitive Strategy with a specific focus on mid-sized, high technology companies. My key interest is helping people get past what stumps them so that they can be successful personally and professionally.
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Competitive Intelligence: Check Your Sparkplugs (or 10 signs of impending failure)
I was eighteen years old, fiercely independent and ready to go to college. We were living in Wyoming at the time and the college was in Florida. The long road trip ahead of me was the first one that I had ever undertaken by myself. I would have to make all the preparations beforehand, all of the decisions along the way and, of course, I was responsible for how I performed in school.
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- At 2:04pm on July 21, 2009,
Jens Thieme said… - There you go...
http://www.scip.org/content.cfm?itemnumber=6597
Cheers, Jens
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Well getting a clean feed takes a combination of good web-sources and appropriate taxonomy-based semantic filters. It seems your friend's RSS is clean and thus it may be worth to look at his/her taxonomy. Any insight?
Indeed Richard you seem pretty well covered as far as information retrieval is concerned.
What about analysis, sharing, collaboration with others? What about aggregating those feeds together?
Any insights would be helpful.
I use e-sobi. It is a rss and podcast feed reader. I can add the feeds I want, I can store pages for later use, I can set alerts. Seems to be more powerful than the free readers. SInce you can organize it the way you want, it provides a way to quick…
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